Statistics

Track your listening habits with FableFrog Premium's statistics dashboard, charts, genre breakdowns, fun facts, and session history.

Overview

Listening statistics are a Premium feature that gives you deep insight into your audiobook habits. FableFrog tracks your listening sessions locally and on your Audiobookshelf server, then presents the data through interactive charts, breakdowns, and personalized insights.

All statistics are derived from your actual listening data on the server. FableFrog doesn't fabricate or estimate numbers. If you listen on multiple devices, your stats reflect your combined activity across all of them.

Stats Dashboard

The stats dashboard is the main entry point, accessible from the Stats tab. It presents your listening time through interactive charts with multiple time scales.

Daily Chart

See how much you listened each day over the selected period. Each bar represents a single day's total listening time, with sparkline trends overlaid so you can see the direction of your habits at a glance. This view is useful for spotting your daily listening rhythm. Do you listen more on weekdays or weekends?

Weekly Chart

Aggregated weekly totals give you a broader view of your listening trends. Weeks with higher bars indicate periods of heavier listening, making it easy to see the impact of vacations, commutes, or binge-worthy series.

Monthly Chart

The longest time scale, showing total listening time per month. Monthly charts are especially useful at year-end to see how your habits evolved over the course of the year.

Gantt Charts

For books you've listened to over multiple sessions, Gantt charts visualize your reading timeline. Each book appears as a horizontal bar spanning from your first to your last listening session, ordered by when you started. This makes it easy to see overlapping reads, how long it took to finish a book, and which periods had the most parallel listening.

Year Selector

Switch between years to compare your listening across different time periods. If you've been using Audiobookshelf for several years, this lets you see long-term trends in your audiobook consumption.

Day-of-Week Patterns

A breakdown showing which days of the week you listen most. This averages your listening across all weeks in the selected period, revealing consistent patterns. Maybe you always listen more on your Sunday morning runs or Wednesday commutes.

Time-of-Day Patterns

See when you listen most throughout the day — morning, afternoon, evening, or late night. This visualization breaks your listening into time-of-day buckets so you can discover your peak listening hours.

Listening Heatmap

A GitHub-style heatmap showing your listening activity over the past year. Each cell represents a day, colored by listening intensity. Streaks, gaps, and seasonal patterns are immediately visible. Tap any cell to see the details for that day.

Landscape Mode

Rotate your phone to landscape to view any chart in full-screen mode. The nav bar, tab bar, and mini-player are hidden automatically, giving you the entire screen for data visualization.

Library Completion

At the top of the stats dashboard, FableFrog shows your overall % Complete: your total listening progress across all books divided by the total duration of your library. Think of it as a library progress bar that grows as you work through your collection.

This number reflects actual listening progress for every book in your library, whether the book is finished, in progress, or untouched. It's a satisfying metric that gives you a single number for how much of your library you've consumed.

Insights

Beyond raw charts, FableFrog surfaces curated insights about your listening behavior.

Genre Breakdown

A visual breakdown of your listening time split across genres. See what percentage of your time goes to science fiction vs. mystery vs. nonfiction. Genres are pulled from your Audiobookshelf metadata, so accurate tagging on the server means more accurate insights here.

Top Series and Books

Your most-listened series and individual books, ranked by total listening time. This section highlights where you've invested the most hours, useful for spotting your true favorites versus books you only sampled.

Speed Savings

A cumulative tally of time you've "saved" by listening at speeds above 1.0x. If you typically listen at 1.5x, FableFrog calculates how many additional hours of content you've consumed compared to normal speed. For power listeners, this number can be surprisingly large.

Finished Books

A complete list of every audiobook you've finished, with the date you completed each one. Think of it as your audiobook trophy case, a growing record of everything you've read with your ears.

Fun Facts

FableFrog generates personalized fun facts about your listening habits. These are bite-sized insights designed to be surprising, motivating, or just interesting.

How Fun Facts Work

Fun facts are generated from your listening data and refreshed periodically. They analyze patterns across your sessions, genres, time-of-day preferences, and listening streaks to produce statements like "You've listened to more hours of fantasy this month than any previous month" or "Your longest single-day listening session was 4 hours and 12 minutes."

Weekly Fun Facts

Updated each week, these reflect your recent listening activity. They compare your current week to previous weeks, highlight changes in behavior, and call out notable achievements.

Monthly Fun Facts

A broader look at the past month's listening. Monthly fun facts tend to focus on trends and milestones: books finished, genres explored, total time invested.

Annual Fun Facts

Your year-in-review, available at any time (not just December). Annual fun facts summarize your entire year of listening: total hours, books completed, top genres, favorite narrators, and how your habits shifted across seasons.

Listening History

For users who want the raw data, FableFrog provides a complete log of every listening session.

Viewing Sessions

Each session entry shows the book title, start time, duration, and date. Sessions are recorded by your Audiobookshelf server, so they include activity from all clients, not just FableFrog.

Grouping Modes

You can view your session history in three modes:

• Flat: a chronological list of every session, newest first. Best for seeing exactly what you listened to and when.
• By day: sessions grouped under date headers. Useful for reviewing a specific day's listening activity.
• By book: sessions grouped by audiobook. This shows all sessions for each book together, making it easy to see your listening pattern for a specific title.

Session Details

Tap any session to see its full details, including the exact start and end timestamps, the chapter you were in, and the total duration. This level of detail is useful for tracking your habits or troubleshooting sync issues.

Tap to Jump

Tap any entry in your listening history to jump directly to that position in the player and start playback. If the book isn't currently loaded, FableFrog loads it at the tapped position automatically. Each jump is logged as its own event so it appears in the activity feed.

Clear Listen History

If you want to reset a specific book's listening history — for example, before a re-listen — you can clear it from the book detail page's context menu using the Clear Listen History option. This removes all session records for that book without affecting your other listening data or overall statistics.

Activity Feed

The activity feed provides a granular, cross-book view of your playback events — plays, pauses, seeks, chapter changes, and jumps — all in one chronological stream. Access it from the Listen History section.

What It Shows

Each row in the activity feed displays the event type, the book title, and a timestamp. Unlike listening sessions (which summarize a block of listening time), the activity feed shows individual events, giving you a fine-grained view of exactly what happened and when.

Grouping Modes

The activity feed supports two grouping modes:

• By day: events grouped under date headers, giving you a chronological view of each day's activity.
• By book: events grouped by audiobook, so you can see all activity for a specific title in one place.

Switch between grouping modes using the toggle at the top of the activity feed.

Live Updates

The feed updates in real time as you listen. New events appear at the top without needing to refresh.

Tap to Play

Tap any event in the activity feed to jump to that exact position in the player. This works across books — if you tap an event for a different book than the one currently playing, FableFrog loads that book and seeks to the position automatically.